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Boy's nameOrigin: biblicalIn Israel: steady

AdamIn Hebrew: אדם · meaning, pronunciation and popularity in Israel

With vowel points: אָדָםRomanization: adám

Adam (Hebrew: אדם) is a boy's name of biblical origin. 30,111 people born in Israel between 1949 and 2024 have it today, according to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). In 2024 it was given to 1,299 boys and ranked #8. Its peak year was 2021, with 1,474 babies.

People in Israel
30,111
born 1949–2024
Babies in 2024
1,299
rank #8
Peak year
2021
1,474 babies
USA, 2025
3,501
rank #101

Writing and saying Adam

In Hebrew letters the name is אדם, read right to left. Adam is the Latin spelling recorded by our review; families choose their own spelling in passports, so you may also meet other forms. Wiktionary romanizes it as "adám" (the accent marks the stressed syllable).

Meaning and origin

  • a male given name, equivalent to English Adam
  • Adam (the first man and the progenitor of the human race)
Inherited from Proto-Semitic *ʔadam-. Comparable to Phoenician 𐤀𐤃𐤌 (ʾdm, “man, earthling”), Ugaritic 𐎀𐎄𐎎 (ảdm, “man; red earth, red ochre”), Old South Arabian 𐩱𐩵𐩣 (ʾdm, “vassals, subjects”), Ge'ez ዶም (dom, “slave”), Akkadian 𒀀𒁕𒄠𒈬 (a-da-am-mu /⁠adamu⁠/, “blood”), Akkadian 𒀀𒁕𒈠𒌈 (a-da-ma-tum /⁠adamātu⁠/, “dark red earth or dye”), Akkadian 𒀀𒁕𒈬 (a-da-mu /⁠adamu⁠/, “a red garment”), Akkadian 𒀀𒁕𒈬…

Quoted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), unchanged.

Adam by year: Israel and abroad

How many boys out of every 10,000 born each year have the name. For Israel it counts the people born that year who carry the name today (the CBS counts residents by year of birth, not birth registrations).

Adam: rate per 10,000, 1950–2025

per 10,000 babies of the same sex

Adam in English-speaking countries

Adam in each official list: latest year, count, rank and peak
Country / regionYearBabiesRankPeak
United States20253,501#1011984 (23,939)
United Kingdom20251,575#261997 (4,785)
England and Wales20251,431#261996 (4,538)
Scotland2025114#322003 (418)
Northern Ireland202530#792001 (321)
Ireland2025191#222001 (833)
British Columbia202366#311984 (333)
Alberta2025110#151983 (343)
Quebec2025371#102012 (514)
New South Wales2025113#721982 (1,012)

Counts for boys. The Hebrew page for Adam has every year and the other spellings.

Related Israeli names

Spelling variants and names that look or sound close in Hebrew.

Questions about Adam

How do you write Adam in Hebrew?

Adam is written אדם in Hebrew (with vowel points: אָדָם). Hebrew is read right to left. A dictionary romanization is "adám".

How many people in Israel are named Adam?

30,111 people born between 1949 and 2024 carry the name אדם: 18 women and 30,093 men. The count comes from the CBS table of current first names by year of birth; years with fewer than 5 people are not published.

Is Adam a boy's or a girl's name?

In Israel it is almost always a boy's name: 99.9% of the people named אדם are men.

What does the name Adam mean?

English Wiktionary describes it as: "a male given name, equivalent to English Adam" Etymology: Inherited from Proto-Semitic *ʔadam-. Comparable to Phoenician 𐤀𐤃𐤌 (ʾdm, “man, earthling”), Ugaritic 𐎀𐎄𐎎 (ảdm, “man; red earth, red ochre”), Old South Arabian 𐩱𐩵𐩣 (ʾdm, “vassals, subjects”), Ge'ez ዶም (dom, “slave”), Akkadian 𒀀𒁕𒄠𒈬 (a-da-am-mu /⁠adamu⁠/, “blood”), Akkadian 𒀀𒁕𒈠𒌈 (a-da-ma-tum /⁠adamātu⁠/, “dark red earth or dye”), Akkadian 𒀀𒁕𒈬 (a-da-mu /⁠adamu⁠/, “a red garment”), Akkadian 𒀀𒁕𒈬…

Is Adam used outside Israel?

The name Adam appears in the official baby name lists of English-speaking countries. In the United States 3,501 boys were given it in 2025 (#101), per the Social Security Administration. In the UK 1,575 in 2025 (ONS, NRS and NISRA combined).

Sources

Israel: Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), current first names of people born 1949–2024 by sex, population group and year of birth, processed 2026-09-27. CBS publications.

Abroad

Counts are copied as published. We only merged accented spellings (Zoë = Zoe) and computed ranks and rates. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia and the Open Government Licence – Alberta.